not just for america. there's no country in the history of the world that has ever given treasure and life of america -- of that country's people to get freedom for other countries, other people of whom we ask nothing in return. that is unheard of in the history of the world, and yet this nation has done it over and over. we've done it to help protect muslims and give them freedom of choice, christians, buddhists. it did not matter. it was all about human rights, human dignity and human freedom. and we see that slipping away every time we prop up some brutal dictator, every time we look the other way and pat cruel, evil people on the back and say, oh, we're so proud of you, we're glad to be your friend when those, like those repressed by cuba say please, don't give more credibility to the oppressors. i yield to my friend for his final thoughts. mr. smith: i think you just made an articulate defense of why a consistent, transparent human right, pro-freedom, pro-democracy foreign policy is absolutely essenti